Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 184 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (T.) v.v

Sprengel, C.P.J. (1824), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 17, 1: 278 [basionym]

basionym of: Aira ciliata (R.Br.) Spreng. nom. illeg.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 133 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1888), A few Queensland grasses: 15 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Aira ciliata (R.Br.) Spreng. nom. illeg.

Domin, K. (1911), Third contribution to the flora of Australia. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 10: 118 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: ... Arnhem Land (R.Brown, Iter Australiense 1802–1905 no. 6264 ...

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 624 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 354 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Aira ciliata (R.Br.) Spreng. nom. illeg.

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 9 [secondary reference]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 49 [secondary reference]

Specht, R.L. in Specht, R.L. & Mountford, C.P. (ed.) (August 1958), The Gymnospermae and Angiospermae collected on the Arnhem Land Expedition. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land No. 3 Botany and Plant Ecology: 199 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 221 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 443 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eriachne gracilescens Domin legitimate

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 34 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 63 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. & Palmer, J. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Eriachne. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 1168, Fig. 321E, 331C [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Eriachne gracilescens Domin legitimate common name: Slender Wanderrie grass [n/a]

Lazarides, M. (30 June 1995), The genus Eriachne (Eriachneae, Poaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 8(3): 376, figs 29G, K, 9 (map) [secondary reference]

• Type: Northern Territory, Darwin and Gulf District, Melville Bay (Arnhem North Bay)'; 14.ii.1803, R. Brown (6264* pro parte) (holo, BM; iso, K). *this number includes Brown's collections of two species, E. ciliata and E. mucronata.

nomenclatural synonym: Aira ciliata (R.Br.) Spreng. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Eriachne gracilescens Domin legitimate

Kenneally, K.F., Edinger, D.C. & Willing, T. (1996), Broome and Beyond. Plants and people of the Dampier Peninsula, Kimberley, Western Australia: 220-221 [secondary reference]

common name: Slender Wanderrie Grass [n/a]

Lazarides, M., Van den Borre, A. & Weiller, C.M. in Mallett, K. (ed.) (2005), Eriachne. Flora of Australia 44B: 169-170, Fig. 26A-I [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Aira ciliata (R.Br.) Spreng. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Eriachne gracilescens Domin legitimate common name: Slender Wanderrie Grass [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Aira ciliata (R.Br.) Spreng. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Eriachne gracilescens Domin legitimate taxonomic synonym: Eriachne sp. Meentheena Station (S.van Leeuwen 4484) [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT, Qld

Barrett, R.L. (13 December 2016), Three new species from the Kimberley region of Western Australia from the families Caryophyllaceae, Convolvulaceae and Poaceae. Nuytsia 27: 292 [pro parte taxonomic synonym]

pro parte taxonomic synonym of: Eriachne pindanica R.L.Barrett legitimate

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